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Good commentary. So many parallels with the long discredited tobacco industry arguments against ad bans; so many good reasons to expose similar gambling industry lobbying; and so shameful that the government has failed to implement the Murphy Committee recommendations on gambling advertising.

09.10.2025 09:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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I enjoyed a wonderful visit to Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India last week to talk about my research on the cultural history of Medicare, and to explore research collaborations in #medicalhumanities.

24.09.2025 02:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Read the latest by @carolynholbrook.bsky.social and Lyndon Megarrity: Federation or ‘Fetteration’? Secessionist sentiment in Queensland and Western Australia during the first decade of the Commonwealth. lnkd.in/gmZq6eRP Available open access in 22(1) #historyaustralia #openaccess

15.05.2025 10:35 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?

My Conversation article about the broader implications of the Australian War Memorial's elusive eligibility rules for its Carlyon book prize.

theconversation.com/the-australi...

18.09.2025 04:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Biography - Netta Patricia Burns - Australian Dictionary of Biography

New bio on the Australian Dictionary of Biography of Netta Burns, Labor's legendary social policy adviser

adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bu...

21.02.2025 06:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The best of both worlds? How Australia’s unique democracy evolved Australia at federation was perhaps the most developed example of harnessing democracy and bureaucracy.

The best of both worlds? How Australia’s unique democracy evolved
theconversation.com/the-best-of-...

20.02.2025 01:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Journal of Contemporary History - Volume 60, Number 1, Jan 01, 2025 Table of contents for Journal of Contemporary History, 60, 1, Jan 01, 2025

Great to see the latest Journal of Contemporary History out (60/1) featuring not just our piece on tourism and R&R but also one by @carolynholbrook.bsky.social, @miamh.bsky.social & David Lowe on Australia and national security in the 1930s! journals.sagepub.com/toc/jcha/60/1

08.02.2025 09:55 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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